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An egg-and-spoon race is a sporting event in which participants must balance an egg or similarly shaped item upon a spoon and race with it to the finishing line. At many primary schools an egg-and-spoon race is staged as part of the annual Sports Day , alongside other events such as the sack race and the three-legged race .
The story opens as the narrator, a man named Ferguson (an Updike autobiographical figure), is reminiscing about festivities in his boyhood community that included an “egg-and-spoon race” for local children. Ferguson, an archaeologist, recalls the general outpouring of the community's grief at the passing of his father, a retired school teacher.
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The series obtained its name from the initial challenge of making a device capable of transporting an egg in a rubber-band-powered vehicle the furthest possible distance without breaking it. After the initial egg-related challenges, other non-egg events were introduced, [4] and after two series, the original egg-racing was dropped.
Egg spoon — for eating soft boiled eggs; with a shorter handle and bowl than a teaspoon, and a bowl broadly round across the end, rather than pointed, intended to enable the user to scrape soft-boiled egg out of the shell; French sauce spoon — for eating sauce; similar to a dessert spoon, but with a flatter, notched bowl
Born and raised in Albany, New York, Gregory Maguire is the youngest of four children born to Helen and John Maguire.His mother died from complications suffered giving birth to him, which prompted his father to send him to live with an aunt.
Betty MacDonald (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard; March 26, 1907 [1] – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I. She also wrote the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series of children's books. She is associated with the Pacific Northwest, especially Washington.